KARACHI: Two suspects — a robber and a thief — were lynched by a mob in two separate incidents in Karimabad and Baldia Town areas on Sunday, police and rescue services said.

Central SSP Maroof Usman said armed pillion riders looted a family and tried to flee when their motorbike developed some fault. The suspects abandoned it and tried to snatch another bike from an unknown citizen who they shot and injured before being fled.

Azizabad SHO Kamran Haider said that the suspects committed robbery near United Bakery in Karimabad. They were pushing their bike to escape when area people put up resistance, resultantly they fell. They abandoned the bike and ran towards a known eatery.

Around 200-250 people gathered there, got hold on both of them and subjected them to beating. Among the mob, someone armed with a pistol also opened fire on them.

The officer said he was performing his duty at Sohrab Goth where the police were deployed to meet any eventuality after two days of violence. He rushed to the spot and got custody of the both the wounded men. They were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced Qasim dead while Azam was admitted for treatment.

The SHO said the criminal record of the deceased and injured was being obtained.

He opined that since the people had taken law into their hands, an FIR has been registered against unknown persons over charges of murder and injuries.

In another incident, a suspected thief was tortured and killed by people in Baldia Town.

An Edhi Foundation spokesperson said that an unknown suspect aged around 25 was tortured and killed by people in Yusuf Goth. The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi to fulfil medico-legal formalities.

However, Saeedabad SHO Shakir Husain said that the deceased was a ‘drug addict’, who was killed by a watchman with a hard and blunt weapon.

He said they were waiting for reports of the doctors and murder case may be registered against the watchman.

‘Dacoit’ gunned down

A suspect was shot dead on the outskirts of the metropolis on Sunday.

The Shah Latif Town police said that a ‘dacoit’ — Waqar Rasool, 37 — was gunned down by the firing of unknown person(s) near Mohammed Goth. The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.

Malir SSP Irfan Bahadur said that the deceased had a criminal record and he might have been murdered by his accomplice(s) over some issue.

Woman shot dead by husband

A woman was shot dead allegedly by her husband in the Sachal area on Sunday.

Police said that Shazia, 35, was gunned down by her husband Shahid Iqbal inside their home in Sikandar Goth over some domestic issues.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a post-mortem examination.

Published in Dawn, July 18th, 2022